Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in New Zealand
New Zealand: Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value was 1,925 kcal/cap/d in 2025. ▬ Flat
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in New Zealand, 2000–2025
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kcal/cap/d.
Analysis
In 2025, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in New Zealand stood at 1,925 kcal/cap/d. That is the highest value across all 26 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in New Zealand peaked at 1,925 kcal/cap/d in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1,908 kcal/cap/d, in 2000.
That places New Zealand 34th out of 181 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the top quarter.
Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value in New Zealand, year by year
| Year | kcal/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,908 kcal/cap/d | — |
| 2001 | 1,909 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2002 | 1,911 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2003 | 1,914 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2004 | 1,915 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2005 | 1,916 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2006 | 1,916 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 1,915 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2008 | 1,913 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2009 | 1,912 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2010 | 1,910 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2011 | 1,909 kcal/cap/d | -0.1% |
| 2012 | 1,909 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 1,910 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2014 | 1,912 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2015 | 1,915 kcal/cap/d | +0.2% |
| 2016 | 1,917 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 1,919 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 1,920 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 1,922 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 1,922 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 1,923 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2022 | 1,923 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 1,924 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2024 | 1,925 kcal/cap/d | +0.1% |
| 2025 | 1,925 kcal/cap/d | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,913 kcal/cap/d | 1,908 kcal/cap/d | 1,916 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,914 kcal/cap/d | 1,909 kcal/cap/d | 1,922 kcal/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,924 kcal/cap/d | 1,922 kcal/cap/d | 1,925 kcal/cap/d | 6 |
Countries ranked near New Zealand
More agriculture & rural data for New Zealand
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -10.07 % change on previous year (2023)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0401 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2023)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 1,976 current US$ per person (2023)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.275 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.16 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 4.0% (2023)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 4.0% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 9.3% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in New Zealand?
- Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value in New Zealand was 1,925 kcal/cap/d in 2025, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in New Zealand?
- The highest recorded value was 1,925 kcal/cap/d in 2024.
- What is the lowest minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value recorded in New Zealand?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,908 kcal/cap/d in 2000.
- How does New Zealand rank for minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value?
- New Zealand ranks 34th out of 181 countries with data for 2025.
- Is minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — value rising or falling in New Zealand?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this New Zealand data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Minimum dietary energy requirement (kcal/cap/day) — Value. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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The Suite of Food Security Indicators presents the core set of food security indicators. Following the recommendation of experts gathered in the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) Round Table on hunger measurement, hosted at FAO headquarters in September 2011, an initial set of indicators aiming to capture various aspects of food insecurity is presented here. The choice of the indicators has been informed by expert judgement and the availability of data with sufficient coverage to enable comparisons across regions and over time. Many of these indicators are produced and published elsewhere by FAO and other international organizations. They are reported here in a single database with the aim of building a wide food security information system. More indicators will be added to this set as more data will become available. Indicators are classified along the four dimensions of food security -- availability, access, utilization and stability.